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Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.